Improved washing-machine



CHARLES H. HUDSON, OF OGDENSBURG, NEV YORK.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

' Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,6

*23, dated February 1li, 1864.

To a/ZZ whom/ t rftay concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HUDsoN, of Ogdensburg, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bubbing Attachment for Wash-Boards; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line x x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan or top view oi' the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention is designed to supersede the hands in washing with the ordinary washboard; and it consists in the employment or use of rollers and a rubber placed within a suitable box attached to a swinging frame connected to the wash-board in such a manner that the rollers vand rubber may be moved over the wash-board and the operation of washing clothes by hand greatly facilitated.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a wash-board, which may be constructed in the usual manner, with the exception of the form of the tinted board oi, which is of concave form longitudinally, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. To each side ofthe wash-board A there is attached a strip, b, by screws or otherwise, and to each of these strips there is secured an inclined bar, c, in the upper ends of which a rock-shaft, B, is iitted.

C C are two posts, the upper parts of which pass loosely through the rock-shaft B, and have spiral springs D placed upon them, the upper ends of said springs bearing against the under side of the rock-shaft B, and the lower ends bearlng against shoulders d on the posts. Through the upper parts of the posts C C pins e pass, to prevent the posts being drawn out from the rockshaft. rIhe lower parts oil' the posts C O are connected by a cross-rod, E, and to the lower ends of said posts a box, F, is attached by pivots f f. This box F is simply a hat board having a pendent plate, g, at each end to receive the ends of the shafts h h of two luted rollers, G G,

which are parallel with each other and extend the whole distance between the plates g g. G there is placed Between the two rollers G A quence of the springs a bar, H, the ends of which are fitted in vertical oblong slots i i in the plates g, and have india-rubber springs j placed over them, springs having a tendency to press the bar H downward. In this bar H, at its under side, there is fitted an indiarubber strip, I, which extends the whole length of the bar. The spiral springs D, on the posts C O, have a tendency to press the rollers G G and rubber strip I down on the iiuted board a of the wash-board, as will be fully understood by referring to Fig. l.

The wash-board A is placed in the tub in the usual inclined position, and the clothes are subjected to the requisite rubbing and friction on the iiuted board a by drawing or swinging the box F forward and backward, the rollers G and rubber strip I actingupon the clothes and cleansing them in a thorough manner, said rollers and rubber, in conse- D, being allowed to yield or give, so as not to exert any undue pressure on the clothes.

I would remark that if the tinted board c be of such a curve as to form a part of a circle of which the rock-shaft Bis the center,

the box F may be rigidly attached to thel posts C G, but in case the iiuted board has not such a curve the box F should be attached to the posts G by pivots, as shown, so that the rollers and rubber may act properly upon the clothes or have a suitable bearing thereon at `all points of the movement of rollers and rubber.

I would further remark that the rollers G may have smooth or luted peripheries, and may be constructed of wood or other suitable material, and that the rubber strip I may be of india-rubber or other suitable elastic material. India-rubber, however, would probably be preferable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The swinging and yielding posts C C, attached te a rock-shaft, B, connected with the wash-board A, substantially as shown, in combination with the box F, provided with the rollers G G, and elastic rubber I, the box being attached to the posts C C, and all arranged to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

' CHARLES H. HUDSON.

Witnesses:

E. M. I-IoLBRooK, GEORGE B. OswELL.

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